Shakespeare’s Birthday, St George’s Day, World Book Day and now English Sparkling Day. April 23rd is a busy day for bibliophiles, patriotic types and now English oenophiles. This year, Thursday 23rd April saw the inaugural celebration of English Sparkling Day 2015 with a series of wine events in the UK. At Fareham Wine Cellar we […]
Hambledon Vineyard 2014 Harvest
Hambledon Vineyard, Thursday 9th October 2014 I was invited to Hambledon Vineyard, along with various other great and good people (including wine merchants, customers, shareholders), to “help” with their 2014 harvest. I use the word “help” loosely as between us we only managed to harvest the best part of a single row of vines and […]
Hampshire Wine Festival
Vineyards of Hampshire Wine Festival at Jenkyn Place Sunday 13th July 2014 Last Sunday I made my way to Jenkyn Place Vineyard in the village of Bentley, Hampshire. The Vineyards of Hampshire Wine Festival is the first event of its kind put on by a group of six award-winning English wine producers who have joined […]
Champagne Pierson Whitaker
Now available in the UK at Fareham Wine Cellar. Champagne Pierson Whitaker is a very small, boutique producer of Champagne. The annual production is around 30,000 bottles in total which, in Champagne terms, is tiny and most of the work in the vineyards and cellar is done by hand. Pierson Whitaker is located in the […]
Meonhill Chardonnay Brut or Blanc de Blancs?
Edit: 08/05/18 Please note, that although we no longer stock Meonhill Wines, but we do stock some fantastic Hampshire Sparkling Wines from our local producers Hambledon Vineyard, Cottonworth Wine and Raimes Sparkling. Since I wrote this blog post Hambledon Vineyard has acquired Meonhill and Didier Pearson is now part of the Hambledon team (as well as […]
